african1
11-22-2010, 02:37 AM
Why would racial profiling at airports fail?
Because terrorists will recruit other races.
The main mistake people who think this way make is thinking we are fighting a certain people. We aren't. We are fighting an idea and ideas have no race. They take hold of people's brain not race.
Advocates of racial profiling think profiling Arabs is the answer. They think Arab men will all like:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/398841156_f1b3405447.jpg
and Arab women look like:
http://www.arab-chats.com/images/arab%20girl.jpg
But they forget that Muslims around the World are from different races and ethnicity.
This is a Bosnian Muslim girl: she looks white to me.
http://www.raisport.rai.it/RaiSport/pub/static/82800/20051009MissBosniaSanjaTunjic2.jpg
Most lebanese people look white. Half of them are Muslims and Shiite.
http://afp.google.com/media/ALeqM5jOmKoSAoD9bi1LYhgDfkokXgRMHQ?size=l
Finally how would you profile these guys:
http://www.halfwaytoconcord.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/christmas-bomber.png
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/gadahn_in_jail.jpg
what of this guy shaved his beard
http://patdollard.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/al-khattab1.jpg
or this guy
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/1/12/1263286503051/Radical-Muslim-cleric-Oma-001.jpg
both muslim radicals.
Are these guys latino or arabs:
In the end, not everyone who travels will be looking like this guy:
http://www.elca.org/%7E/media/Images/Growing%20in%20Faith/Ministry/Multicultural%20Ministries/Latino%20family.JPG
http://www.belgiumtheplaceto.be/photos/Chez_Mamans_Maman_001.JPG
Because terrorists will recruit other races.
The main mistake people who think this way make is thinking we are fighting a certain people. We aren't. We are fighting an idea and ideas have no race. They take hold of people's brain not race.
Advocates of racial profiling think profiling Arabs is the answer. They think Arab men will all like:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/398841156_f1b3405447.jpg
and Arab women look like:
http://www.arab-chats.com/images/arab%20girl.jpg
But they forget that Muslims around the World are from different races and ethnicity.
This is a Bosnian Muslim girl: she looks white to me.
http://www.raisport.rai.it/RaiSport/pub/static/82800/20051009MissBosniaSanjaTunjic2.jpg
Most lebanese people look white. Half of them are Muslims and Shiite.
http://afp.google.com/media/ALeqM5jOmKoSAoD9bi1LYhgDfkokXgRMHQ?size=l
Finally how would you profile these guys:
http://www.halfwaytoconcord.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/christmas-bomber.png
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/gadahn_in_jail.jpg
what of this guy shaved his beard
http://patdollard.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/al-khattab1.jpg
or this guy
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/1/12/1263286503051/Radical-Muslim-cleric-Oma-001.jpg
both muslim radicals.
Are these guys latino or arabs:
In the end, not everyone who travels will be looking like this guy:
http://www.elca.org/%7E/media/Images/Growing%20in%20Faith/Ministry/Multicultural%20Ministries/Latino%20family.JPG
http://www.belgiumtheplaceto.be/photos/Chez_Mamans_Maman_001.JPG